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Art. VI. The Competition Designs for laying out the Gardens of 

 the Royal Botanic Society of London, in the Inner Circle, Regent's 

 Park. 



The foilowing are the " Instructions for the Guidance of Candidates" which 

 were issued by the Society in February last: — That a large portion of the 

 ground shall be applied to a geographic arrangement of plants, or a distribution 

 of plants, in about tv/elve separate compartments or groups, corresponding to 

 the principal floras of the globe, such as the Arctic Regions, the North of 

 Europe and Asia, England, the Mediterranean Region, China and Japan, 

 India and the adjacent islands. North America, Mexico and the West Indies, 

 South America, the South of Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. That 

 this part shall comprise one or more conservatories or hot-houses; provision 

 for water plants, and others of peculiar habits ; lawns, with spacious terraces 

 or other walks : the whole so disposed as to be at the same time instructive 

 and ornamental. That gardens on a suitable scale shall be provided, so laid 

 out as to accommodate professors and their pupils in the study of plants, 

 under the five following heads : — 1. Medicine; 2. Agriculture; 3. Arts and 

 Manufactures ; 4. Scientific Arrangements ; 5. Experiment. That sites shall 

 be provided for, — 



1. Buildings to contain lecture-room, library, museum, &c. 



2. Curator's and gardener's dwellings. 



3. A nursery, with other necessary appendages and offices. 



4. An entrance-lodge, which it is proposed shall be on the east side, op- 

 posite to Chester Terrace, where the gate now is. 



That the plans generally, and particularly as regards the conservatories 

 and other buildings, be so arranged as to admit of being executed progres- 

 sively ; and that the present buildings and walks upon the gardens be pre- 

 served, as far as possible, either permanently or during the execution of any 

 new general arrangements. That it is not desired to have the designs ex- 

 hibiting in detail the arrangements and construction of the buildings, but only 

 the size and situation recommended for them. For the convenience and 

 gratification of the public admitted into the gardens, it is proposed that there 

 should be wide terraces or other walks connected with an extensive lawn, and 

 the whole decorated in such a manner as to be rendered as attractive as possible. 

 The arrangements should be in all respects complete for the objects of an 

 ornamental as well as a scientific garden, as far as they can be made so con- 

 sistently with a strict regard to economy. That the belt of trees surrounding 

 the ground, and the reservoir within it, be preserved. That the plans be all 

 drawn to the scale of 50 ft. to 1 in., and be delivered on or before Saturday, 

 the 4th day of April, 1840. 



The following is a catalogue of the designs given in and exhibited in the 

 Society's rooms, in Pall Mall, from April 8. to May 9. 



1. Plan of the ground in its present state. 2. H. P., Spring Terrace, 

 Wandsworth. 3. John Alton, Mr. Pearson's Nursery, Hampstead Road. 

 4. and 5. Martin Joseph Stutely, Architect, Gower Street, Bedford Square. 

 6. Richard Bainbridge, Flower-Gardener to Lord Wenlock, Escrick Park, 

 near York. 7. Alfred Bartholomew, Architect, Warwick House, Gray's Inn, 

 8. W. Billington, Architect and Civil Engineer, Wakefield. 9. John Burges 

 Watson, Architect, 39. Manchester Street, Manchester Square. 10. John 

 Thompson, Landscape-Gardener, &c., late head gardener to his Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland. 11. H. Heathcote Russell, Springfield Lodge, 

 Garrat, near Wandsworth. 12. Edwin E. Merral, 35. Park Lane, Leeds. 

 13. Henry Laxton,F.L.S., Architect and Landscape-Gardener, 70. Berner's 

 Street. 14. and 15. Charles J. Nicolay, Elm Grove Cottage, near Winborne, 

 Dorset. 16. Wyatt Papworth, Architect, 10. Caroline Street, Bedford 

 Square. 17. Edward Lapidge, Derby Street, Parliament Street, 18. and 19, 

 Henry Laxton, F.L.S., Architect and Landscape-Gardener. 20, G, A. Chef- 



